ARTH 2400 Cornell

Guild

an association of craftsman, or merchants, often holding considerable political and economic power

Campanile

a bell tower, usually attached to a church, castle, or palace

Loggia

a gallery or room with one or more open sides

Humanism

the worldview centered on the nature and important of humanity and human achievement, which emerged from the study of Classical antiquity

All’antica

in the manner of the ancients particularly referring to Renaissance architecture inspired by classical Roman and Greek styles.

Magnificence

A moral virtue that consists of spending great amounts of money on appropriately large scale and grand things, befitting to ones station in societyand demonstrating one's status and wealth through lavish expenditures.

St. John’s Baptistery
constructed from 1059 to 1128, constructed from sandstone and marble, first example of Linear Perspective and an important example of Romanesque architecture in Florence, Italy.

Horizon Line

Where the sky appears to meet the ground

Orthoganals

All parallel lines that converge in a single vanishing point on the pieces horizon

Vanishing Point

The point where parallel lines appear to converge in a perspective drawing.

Maesta

A compositional format depicting an enthroned Madonna with the child Jesus generally, accompanied by angel and/or saints

Cimabue, Santa Trinita Maesta

Naturalism

a lifelike accuracy, or artistic interest in representing things as they appear in real life

Giotto di Bondone, Ognissant Madonna

Fra Angelico, The annunciation

Masaccio, The Holy Trinity

Filippino Lippi, Madonna and Child

Renaissance

a period of cultural dynamism between the 14th and 17th centuries in Europe

Baroque

A western style of artistic production from 1600-1750 characterized by material exuberance, dramatic, exaggerated motion, and a sense of grandeur, awe and surprise

Early modern period

describes the era from the 15th century and 18th century

Sacra conversazione

a composition type of renaissance painting in which ‘attendant saints are group in a unified space around the centralized virgin and child in a single panel

iconography

symbolic representation, especially the conventional meanings attached to an image

Stigmata

marks corresponding to those left on Jesus’ body by the crucifixion, said to have been impressed by divine favor on the bodies of certain saints

Pieta

the Virgin Mary holding Jesus immediately after the crucifixion, him laying atop her